Basically portal guns from the game portal (or the flash version). You portal onto the surface of blocks and they conserve momentum from on to the other. Specifics: First of all the colours of the portals would match the cursor colour and its composite like you gravity gun thing Then I was also thinking you will need a couple hard to come by ingredients which would include: A. A black hole and a containment device obtained from either an actual black hole or a particle accelerator B. two miniature surplus German stick grenades (er... Any ideas where you could get these from?) Next of all I think it would be pointless to go through the coding for every surface and designate it as either portalable or unportalable so instead the game would run a simple algorithm that ads up the pixels' colour values on the surface being portaled to (not the whole block, just the edge) to determine whether it is light enough to portal to or not. Also a portal on the ground would take up two blocks( your width) and a vertical portal would take up three blocks ( your hight) Then last but certainly not least, test chambers as a dungeon type naturally generated structure sometimes containing a portal gun. ( they might already be in the game http://playstarbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/apex.png) Also think about other test elements from portal we could use If you want to know where I came up with the miniature surplus German stick grenades then http://images.wikia.com/half-life/en/images/1/1a/Ashpd_blueprint_1.jpg http://images.wikia.com/half-life/en/images/c/c9/Ashpd_blueprint_2.jpg
I don't see why there couldn't be some form of a portal gun but ripping it off directly from some other game(s) would involve copyright issues unless Chucklefish managed to get in touch with the creators and get permission. Personally, I'd prefer some other kind of portal gun if it were going to be in the game and I hope you were kidding about the ingredients.
That brings my brain to an idea,the game itself will be very procedural,i bet there will be possibility to make teleport,tough the items will be fully customizable...altrough the game would be able to bring a lot,and i dont think we should copy something from another game,when we can make lot of variations ingame by ourselves !
Maybe the different variations had different limits, for example, the portal gun from the Portal series can only place portals on white surfaces, what if variants had different materials they were restricted to?
Everything's better with Portal Guns. Just change the color scheme, give it a new name, and you're all set. The Dislocator. The Teleportal. The Warp Shift. Send that charging Bugblatter Beast into a thousand-foot chasm.
I knew this idea was going to show up sooner or later. I'm for it; just change the name and give it a slightly different design. "I hope you've brought something stronger than a portal gun this time. Otherwise, I'm afraid you're about to become the immediate past president of the being-alive club. ha-ha."
